Facebook phone

[Wilkas]

I think this will do really well, aimed at the younger generation that like blackberrys for BBM I think a phone this price or even just the launcher will replace those phones for many younger people. The launcher is available for quite a lot of devices on launch, mainly HTC's from what I've seen so people will download it just to try it if it's free.. many will keep it on that use facebook.

 

[EarlyMon]

Bounce around in your bag? Have you dudes taken to carrying manbags, then?

No idea if I'd carry a bag if I had a Facebook phone. Maybe a brown paper lunch bag with this in it. Not sure.

Only guy I know carrying what you call a manbag has an iPhone in his. Maybe someday he'll carry an Android in it. I don't think that he'd get the First, though.

Isn't that the Verge who said that?

I think that you think that we don't care about sexism.

Could be that we don't care what the Verge says or this phone.

I don't know how to imagine the demographic that this is targeted at - "I must have Facebook at my fingertips and nothing else!!"

I got nothing. :dontknow:

 

[zuben el genub]

No, I think some miss irony or sarcasm. I love both. Had that bag statement been about almost any other product, there would have been complaints. Where's my salt shaker?

Anyway:

What Facebook Home means to Apple and Google

'Slightly closed Android ecosystem could be reality by the end of 2015'

Of the two - the second is the more disturbing opinion.

Windows is also stating that FB Home is a copy of their phone OS.

I'd still want my pretty pictures of Navajo, Wingate, or Entrada sandstone.

 

[EarlyMon]

Not seeing the irony in taking things case by case.

Some have tried strutting about here saying that iPhones are are for women, and that earns you a sit-down with the mods. I remember that happening in the first thread I recall you mentioning the Vulcan, perhaps you do as well. But in threads for the HTC Rhyme, marketed specifically to women, saying that was ok.

Am I reading you wrong? You sound like you're saying, oh they're saying bags because they think this Facebook thing is beneath them.

If I'm reading you right, then I don't know if you're reading me right.

My Little Ponies don't need an introduction, they're for girls.

This thing is different than any of the Facebook rumors in the past.

Is it trying to be a My Little Ponies? If it is, then there's nothing more sexist about this than that.

Given the features, I can't tell, maybe this is trying to be another My Little Ponies or not.

And my girls loved their Little Ponies, so the above is neutral.

As for your second article, it's all stuff already said here, a lot of it by myself, only there with sensationalism, so you'll pardon me if I have a lukewarm reaction to it, I hate sensationalism. That and the author's uninformed belief that Android is about Apps. HTC Sense is very people-centric and while people made fun of that, Google burst that bubble with ICS on the GNex, adopting the very same people-centric features.

Meanwhile, let's all remember, Sense is bad, mmmk, when it's people-centric but when a Nexus is people-centric, it's good, mmmk? And Facebook turning to HTC to get a people-centric thing working? It's not a new idea, mmmk?

Google isn't a software company.

They're an advertising firm.

Touchwiz getting 42.5% of the Android market share doesn't mean that Google has lost control of Android.

It means that Google and Samsung are laughing all the way to the bank.

http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2013/04/06/will-facebooks-phone-gamble-hit-home/

As Zuckerberg showed this week in revealing the new Android-based Home mobile phone system, Facebook really doesn

 

[Wilkas]

Interesting article just popped up on my blinkfeed, on the HTC first you can actually take off Facebook home and underneath it is just stock android, no sense

 

[Speed Daemon]

Google isn't a software company.

They're an advertising firm.

:congrats: That alone made this thread not a waste of time.

 

[zuben el genub]

I did remember the Iphone bit. Had a feminist from anywhere seen that blurb --
seems gang members like FB, too.

Another take:
Comment: Facebook needs to learn from AOL and CompuServe - All in one is not one for all | TechEye

If I see a dratted FB cd on the store counters, I will lose it!

The Vulcan approved of My Little Ponies - If you stepped on one in the dark or kicked it, it didn't hurt. Unlike Legos or Litebrites.

 

[breadnatty08]

They're already pushing it:
Watch this: Facebook stuffs your friends in overhead bins in new Home ad | The Verge

 

[Gmash]

Who says My Little Pony is for girls?

Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[mikedt]

Bounce around in your bag? Have you dudes taken to carrying manbags, then?

I thought all dudes carried manbags. Or at least a significant majority do.

 

[breadnatty08]

I thought all dudes carried manbags. Or at least a significant majority do.

Backpack or messenger bag for me. Don't need something so overpriced.

 

[EarlyMon]

Epic freaking win by HTC!

The HTC First is the first HTC phone to run a stock version of Android since the G2, but nobody noticed

Go to app management, clear defaults on Facebook Home and you get a real phone, running plain stock Android.

HTC clearly knows how to keep people buying the "Facebook phone" from getting screwed.

Wtg, HTC!

 

[zuben el genub]

This covers both Is Walmart Evil and Is Facebook Evil?
Good discussion on what is going on. I'd tend to agree as some things move too fast. Besides the normal gullibility of people, the values have changed.
The first people on FB used it as intended - to keep up with friends and families. They simply can't envision what a juggernaut FB has become.

The same for Walmart. The cities see tax revenues and business, the people see cheaper prices. Then when less people visit since smaller specialty stores have closed - everyone whines. The town will become mostly one level shopping. Those of us who want different or more choice go online.

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